Summary...
Her husband works for a non-profit, she's 39, but they live in a $4 million house.
Take a crazy guess what happened to NY Mag's personal finance columnist. - Hexbear
How I Fell for an Amazon Scam Call and Handed Over $50,000
The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam.
The biggest indicator she's extremely out of touch is that something incredibly embarrassing happened to her and rather than try to minimize it she wrote an article telling everyone in the world what an unqualified moron she is and tried to present it as "this could happen to anyone" and expected any response other than being clowned on
A tweet
omg 💀This makes me feel better about New York Magazine rejecting my personal essay about my dad stealing my identity when I was 5. I never gave a shoebox of money to the fake CIA. I'm not related to any Roosevelts — Just organized Sicilian-Irish crime bosses and Lutheran zealots
shoebox of money to the fake CIA. I'm not related to any Roosevelts — Just organized Sicilian-Irish crime bosses and Lutheran zealots
Wish I could read that person's family history
So what i’m seeing here is we can scam them?
the best part was being told to say nothing other than "thank you" to the stranger in the Mercedes SUV that she handed $50k cash to
Still the absolute funniest bit
Three minutes later, a white Mercedes SUV pulled up to the curb. “The back window will open,” said the man on the phone. “Do not look at the driver or talk to him. Put the box through the window, say ‘thank you,’ and go back inside.”
This dude really was like 'also be grateful'
I got a scam call one time from somebody pretending to be from my bank and it got as far as them texting some fake automated thing to me asking for my password. Up until that point it seemed legit, of they told me to cash out my account I works have laughed then off the phone instantly
Bourgeois people in America are powerfully stupid
They like it!
I'm starting to think their entire lives are various scams piled on top of one another. But most of the scams they involve themselves with get them invited to fancy dinners at the Guggenheim or whatever where a charismatic person in a tuxedo tells them to donate to various non-profits to raise awareness of imposter syndrome.
"uncalibrated" god that cuts as hard as "deeply unserious"
So off the mark she needs to move her wiimote in a figure-8
Oh, how I wish to monologue on, like mr_piss...
Actually I think the best comment is one pointing out she wrote an article about getting her identity stolen in 2012. Looking forward to her next "I got scammed by a con a high schooler could see through" article
In 2012 she was approached by a nice man in a tailored suit. He was handsome and what's the word... debonair. Unbeknownst to her he had a very fake "British" accent.
"I am very sorry to trouble you. But I'm in a spot of bother. I'm a member of MI-5 and this is a matter of great import to both the United States and the United Kingdom. I merely need to borrow your credit card for the briefest of moments..."
This feels like a long running bit. Like, I feel like I could put a subplot about a ditzy faildaughter heirress into a play. These two scams would be in it, and the last one would be so bonkers and over the top obvious.
Forest Gump meets Catch Me If You Can
I would watch said play
Good point mr_piss
Showering us with... insight
They call him mr___piss!
whenever I see a username like poopSex69 it's always either a child or the most insightful person I'll meet all week
Anyone got her number? I need her to go buy some gift cards for me or ill report her for taxes
Younger adults — Gen Z, millennials, and Gen X — are 34 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud compared with those over 60
I think almost everyone gets scammed out of something... But there's a big difference between her and some kid sending a classmate 50$ on a money app for a bag of oregano or someone losing money in a relatively complicated financial scam like digital currencies, or even someone over 60 doing what she did. I don't think very many 39 year olds hand over 50K because someone who called who knew their social.
A part of it as well is a lot of scams targeting the elderly are designed to be subtle and go on for years, so a retiree sending half their pension to a scammer every month might not even realise that they're being scammed and think they're being given a "home security service" or something, and so wouldn't report it.
the biggest scam that's ever happened to me is like when CVS charges $1 more than walmart.
After, presumably, the scam of the inherent labor theft of wage work
What they mean is that I’m not senile, or hysterical, or a rube
lol got bad news for you lady you’re a rube
oh that's how she got conned. She's a rich daughter of privilege whose entire life has been various guys in suits talking to her about money. They played to her ego so she could feel like an important person, someone working with the CIA. Absolute rube
absolutely everyone can fall for a scam if the scammer is dedicated enough, but not for this scam lmao. if i sell everything i have touched in my life i couldn't muster 50k USD how do some people lose that amount and write a fucking opinion piece about it?
Seriously, even getting like 20k would be permanently life changing for me but for this ghoul it's like losing 50 bucks
Did this thing Charlotte Cowles said happened even happen is my question. Or is she getting paid to publish a story worthy of r/thathappened, or is this an elaborate cover to hide her bored ape losses from her spouse?
I don't know anything about her other the few snippets I've read in the past few days. If she's very clever - it's possible everything she wrote was a lie to build her brand because now all that matters in the US for people like her is how much publicity they can generate for themselves.
Counterpoint - my strong hunch is that she's absolute moron fail daughter and she actually gave a rando $50,000 in a shoebox.
Occam's razor would say she's as out of touch as the text suggests. Of course they publish it, for the clicks. She was probably strung out on some powerful meds, this is basically a genre of people I know exist. Inherited everything, no particular acumen but also no awareness or they'd be Hunter. I think we need to hear more from them.
Not to do an ableism and a phrenology but when I see people with Dr Seuss Who Face I assume im dealing with a fail child
Can someone give me a tl;dr on the shoebox story, I keep seeing people talk about it but idk what it's about.
The screengrab of this post is a few paragraphs of the article and it serves as a summary - Take a crazy guess what happened to NY Mag's personal finance columnist. - Hexbear
Sorry I am late as always
He asked me how much cash I thought I would need to support myself for a year if necessary. My assets could be frozen for up to two years if the investigation dragged on, he added. There could be a trial; I might need to testify. These things take time. “I don’t know, $50,000?” I said. I wondered how I would receive paychecks without a bank account.
She is being asked about a situation in which she is unable to receive income.
She thinks she could live on $50k. (I do not believe the person who wrote this could possibly do that.)
Then she ponders how she would be able to receive income.
Isn't the premise of this: NO income?
If she is getting paychecks, what is the $50k for?
This fiction lacks even a little bit of internal consistency.
Could the story be a cover because she (or her husband) did something even more embarrassing? I haven't read past the part I quoted.
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